Sams Teach Yourself Windows® Phone 7 Application Development in 24 Hours

Hour 16. Working with Data

What You’ll Learn in This Hour:

• Determining network connectivity

• Managing local data

• Working with data from a service

• Keeping data synchronized

• Enforcing business rules

In today’s world, cellular network coverage is almost everywhere. Despite this fact, neither network availability nor bandwidth capacity is guaranteed. If your application requires network access to function, these are factors that need to be considered early in your application design. The lack of network availability or bandwidth can have significant impact on your application. For example, do you display an error message if there is no network connection available or do you provide a limited feature set or even an offline mode? If your ...